1. Bob Ebeling

Bob
Ebeling, one of the main engineers behind NASA's Challenger rocket,
which exploded in 1986, revealed that after NASA would not heed his
warnings against launching in the cold weather, he told his wife the
night before the launch, "It's going to blow up."
2. NASA has 2 satellites chasing
each other around the Earth tracking the distance between themselves to
measure gravitational anomalies. Their nicknames are Tom and Jerry.

3. The Minnesota Vikings' new stadium cost more than a NASA mission to Pluto.

4. Just in case life is found on some other planet, NASA actually has an Office of Planetary Protection

5. In 2006 NASA admitted to having
accidentally recorded over the original tapes of the moon landing.
Fortunately NASA wasn't the only group recording. Copies found at CBS
and Johnson Space Center are currently being restored.

6. NASA will send you a text message whenever the International Space Station passes over your location

7. The toaster in your kitchen contains a
more powerful computer than the one used by NASA to send astronauts to
the moon. It only had 64Kbyte of memory and operated at 0.043MHz.

8. This way, if NASA launches its rockets eastward they can take advantage of the Earth's rotation.

9. Since the Space Shuttle electronics
were so outdated and nobody made them anymore, NASA actually resorted to
buying spare parts on websites like eBay